Saturday @ Glastonbury.

Well after hearing several rumors on the Thursday evening, I awoke on the Friday morning to the news that the world was now a slightly safer place. It seemed appropriate that the first showing of Exquisite Corpse was on the Friday. The piece went down very well with everyone and queues started to build to be involved with the work. Louise and Richard worked really well with the audience by getting them to participate. Once a few people had a go, they crowd needed little FOH intervention except to get them off.
We ran the piece this morning, it has been difficult getting the crowd engaged as the people by the screen are waiting for the rugby game which is being transmitted live. Another lesson there, some people have an agenda for one thing and one thing only. Maybe if they did get out of their entrenched enclaves, they might loose their beer bellies.

Exquisite Corpse

Viewers engaging with Exquisite Corpse

Exquisite Corpse

First proper showing

Greetings from sunny Glastonbury!

It chucked it down last night and it's still raining this morning.
Going to be showing my work Exqusite Corpse today at 1 till 2,
saturday 5 till 6 and Sunday 4 till 5. If you are at the festival
come and have a look/go. It's on the Village Screen at the meeting
point. More pics and responses to follow....

Phew (things are starting to work)!

Yesterday I had no end of trouble getting a live feed from the camera on top of the screen. There was a real issue with interference, which for some unknown reason was shifting the right hand side of the frame about 20 pixels towards the centre. It left me quite baffled as to what the resolve might be. The consequence of this is that I might not be able to run 2 applications as I need to get a screen grab from a 'clean feed'. The technicians are working very hard to try and resolve the issue and will be bringing a magic electronic box of electronic tricks later on.
On a positive, the piece that I though would not work at Glastonbury, Exquisite Corpse, has worked really well and has become a bit of a crowd pleaser. I'm very happy. And to put the icing on the cake for today, the crew are playing ACDC and Led Zep.
LETS ROCK

Exquisite corpse

Test of 'If there is nothing'.

The control room

Day 1 of development...

In good glastonbury style things are running a little late, but it's
all in the spirit of things. This pic is of some of the other
developers/ artists : L to R Brendan, Aquil & Tarim. I'm about to try
my app mass pong on the screen. More later.

I'm here at Glastonbury

The sun is shining and the screen is going up. The pa system is BIG!
Mmmmm, my atonal plinky plonky sounds will be interesting through it.

Off to glastonbury

Toilet roll, bin bags, tent, air bed, quilt, snacks, ciggies, anti
bacterial wipes, bottle of rum and a ho ho ho. All packed and ready
for the festival. I've got a couple of preconceptions of how it might
be.
1. Full of middle class trustafari (young white people with dreadlocks
whose daddy has set up a trust fund for them so they never need to
work), stating they live an alternative life but are more capitalist
than your average working person.
2. Full of the london media set, concerned about who is or isn't
wearing this seasons Jimmy Choo wellies.
I hope there is adequate sanitation facilities!

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A few pics of the banksy show

Banksy

I'm in Bristol, all packed and ready for Glastonbury, so thought I'd
check out the banksy show at the city museum. It's 9.30 and allready
there's a massive que to get in. More to follow later...

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Screen Grabs from Top Shot!

Preview
20th & 21st July @ Swindon Dance
Come along if you're in the area!

Top Shot Ready to go! (well almost)...

After spending the latter part of the week at the Renner's Farm, Mark and myself finished putting the final tweaks and testing for Top Shot. Thanks to Sally and George for letting us use the farm and a big thanks to all that came to Rutland for testing the work. We received some invaluable feedback from everyone, which informed how the interaction and responsiveness of the work developed. I feel it was so important to get people to test the work before it goes public. When I program the interaction, I can only presume how another person would negotiate the piece, by testing it, it showed me how others may interact.
We are going to preview the work at Swindon Dance on the 20th and 21st of July. Please come along if you're in the area. I'm pleased with the work, Busby Berkeley would be proud.

More top shot images

Top shot test

Update of projects.

Well I've been hard at work in rural Rutland. The Renners at Normanton Farm have kindly let me use one of their barns to do the final testing of Top Shot. I'ts looking great and looks to be ready for Swindon Dance next month. (I'll post some images later).

If your going to Glastonbury, I'll be at Williams Green. There's going to be one massive LED screen, and I'l be there! If you're about come and see what I've been up to.
http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/areas/williams-green/

Surely some one would use a spell check when using display technology in public?

Haptic device

In the fused media lab of DMU trying out a variety of haptic and VR
devices. This phantom pen arm suggests it could be used to create
sculptural form with a more inuitive feel. I think it's got a bit of a
way to go yet!